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1 SSD for w10 + 1 HDD for mac and windows files?

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orella

orella

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I'm planning to add a new SSD on my laptop by removing the optical drive and using an HDD/SSD adapter so I will have an SDD (120GB/250GB) + HDD(1TB).
My idea is to have dual boot of Windows 10 and MacOS Sierra on separate drives. I'll install windows 10 on the SSD and create 2 partitions on HDD. One to store windows files and the other to install the macOS Sierra.

Can I have any problem with this setup now or in the future? Is a good idea or any of you have a better suggestion?

Thanks.
 
orella said:
I'll install windows 10 on the SSD and create 2 partitions on HDD. One to store windows files and the other to install the macOS Sierra.

Can I have any problem with this setup now or in the future? Is a good idea or any of you have a better suggestion?

Thanks.
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It is easier to setup dualboot on separate drives in my opinion. But I would consider splitting the SSD for macOS and Windows for boot drive, and use the HDD for storage.
 
But I saw on other forum posts that having windows and macOS in the same drive can have problems when windows updates and I'll use windows as my primary OS, that's why I wanted to have it on SDD and mac on HDD.
 
orella said:
I'm planning to add a new SSD on my laptop by removing the optical drive and using an HDD/SSD adapter so I will have an SDD (120GB/250GB) + HDD(1TB).
My idea is to have dual boot of Windows 10 and MacOS Sierra on separate drives. I'll install windows 10 on the SSD and create 2 partitions on HDD. One to store windows files and the other to install the macOS Sierra.

Can I have any problem with this setup now or in the future? Is a good idea or any of you have a better suggestion?

Thanks.
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Your BIOS may not allow you to boot to the SSD attached to the optical SATA port.
But other than that, I don't see any issue.
 
RehabMan said:
Your BIOS may not allow you to boot to the SSD attached to the optical SATA port.
But other than that, I don't see any issue.
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This can be bad. Any way to know that before removing the optical drive? Any option in the BIOS or something like that.
 
orella said:
windows and macOS in the same drive can have problems when windows updates
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Make sure you add the real path to Clover as a boot entry in your firmware i.e. /efi/clover/cloverx64.efi

Workarounds such as relying on the fallback path and/or renaming the windows bootloader executable are liable to break at any time, especially when windows updates or otherwise tries to repair the /efi/microsoft folder.
 
Install both systems on the SSD, that's a different experience :)
At least for me, there's no problem when they are installed on the same drive. (And every problem from this kind seems to be solvable)
 
If I decide to install both on SSD, can you give me a link to any guide?
And SSD have 120GB. Is enough for both systems?
 
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